Search results for "Tsutomu Yamazaki"
Climber’s High

Climber’s High

Climber’s High
IMDb: 6.5
145

On August 12, 1985, a jumbo jet crashes, causing 520 fatalities, making the accident the biggest single-plane accident in the world. The local press reporters are tossed about by the…

Genre: Drama
Departures

Departures

Departures
IMDb: 8
130

Daigo, a cellist, is laid off from his orchestra and moves with his wife back to his small hometown where the living is cheaper. Thinking he’s applying for a job…

Genre: Drama
The Ramen Girl

The Ramen Girl

The Ramen Girl
IMDb: 6.3
102

An American woman is stranded in Tokyo after breaking up with her boyfriend. Searching for direction in life, she trains to be a ramen chef under a tyrannical Japanese master.

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Crying Out Love in the Center of the World

Crying Out Love in the Center of the World

Crying Out Love in the Center of the World
IMDb: 7.2
138

While searching for his fiancee Ritsuko, Sakutarou rediscovers through flashbacks the void deep within him caused by the events from his high school days.

Genre: Drama, Romance
Play it, Boogie-Woogie

Play it, Boogie-Woogie

Play it, Boogie-Woogie
IMDb: 6.4
130

A runaway cat-loving girl begins a love triangle with a reckless older man and a young biker in high school. The film follows their subsequent chaotic relationships.

Genre: Drama
Lovers Lost

Lovers Lost

Lovers Lost
IMDb: 6.4
126

A poignant love story between a 29-year-old woman, who has once been a prostitute but is now the mistress of a wealthy jewelry merchant, and a 19-year-old college student.

Genre: Drama, Romance
GO

GO

GO
IMDb: 7.4
122

Sugihara, a Japanese-born, third-generation Korean teenager struggles to find a place in a society that will not accept him.

Genre: Drama, Romance
Wait and See

Wait and See

Wait and See
IMDb: 6.5
100

A salaryman faces a major life change as his firm undergoes financial difficulties. To add to his troubles, a man claiming to be his long-estranged father shows up at his…

Genre: Drama
Rikyu

Rikyu

Rikyu
IMDb: 7.1
135

Late in the 1500s, an aging tea master teaches the way of tea to a headstrong Shogun. Through force of will and courageous fighting, Hideyoshi becomes Japan’s most powerful warlord,…

Genre: Drama
A Taxing Woman

A Taxing Woman

A Taxing Woman
IMDb: 7.3
128

Intrepid tax investigator Ryoko Itakura sets her sights on the mysterious and philandering Hideki Gondo, a suspected millionaire and proprietor of a thriving chain of seedy hourly hotels, who has…

Genre: Comedy, Crime
Tampopo

Tampopo

Tampopo
IMDb: 7.9
115

In this humorous paean to the joys of food, a pair of truck drivers happen onto a decrepit roadside shop selling ramen noodles. The widowed owner, Tampopo, begs them to…

Genre: Comedy
The Funeral

The Funeral

The Funeral
IMDb: 7.2
125

When Wabisuke’s father-in-law unexpectedly dies, the family goes through a series of random events and occurrences as the funeral unfolds over three days in their home.

Genre: Comedy, Drama
Kagemusha

Kagemusha

Kagemusha
IMDb: 7.9
180

Akira Kurosawa’s lauded feudal epic presents the tale of a petty thief who is recruited to impersonate Shingen, an aging warlord, in order to avoid attacks by competing clans. When…

Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
Demon Pond

Demon Pond

Demon Pond
IMDb: 7
124

When a lone traveler stumbles upon a remote, drought-stricken village, he finds himself engulfed in a whirlpool of myth, mystery, and magic: in a nearby pond reside spirits who hold…

Genre: Fantasy, Romance
Tora-san’s Cherished Mother

Tora-san’s Cherished Mother

Tora-san’s Cherished Mother
IMDb: N/A
93

Kuruma Torajiro is discovered looking around Kyoto for someone special to him.

Genre: Comedy
Red Beard

Red Beard

Red Beard
IMDb: 8.3
185

Aspiring to an easy job as personal physician to a wealthy family, Noboru Yasumoto is disappointed when his first post after medical school takes him to a small country clinic…

Genre: Drama